Music\auditory stimulus and the Epileptic brain

[angel]

Who\what does it for you? I'm really curious to know what you guys listen to if you want to feel better? Sure, there's favorite songs\artists, but what is it about their music that makes you feel better?...melody?...tempo?...lyrics?...bass notes?

I've been searching mega-leads on research projects out there involving music\auditory stimuli and the epileptic brain. Check out the links posted in this thread...there is good stuff out there.


If you were feeling a little 'off'...what would you listen to?

I'll start with:

Dear Prudence-----Beatles
Prelude for Cello Suite in G-----Bach
Deep in the West-----Shake Russell
Nighttime------Big Star
By Myself-----Tony Bennett
leaves falling through the trees

AVRIL LAVIGNE LYRICS

"Keep Holding On"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-s16RFkkl0

[Catspaw]

I enjoy rolling thunder storm, or ocean waves beating against the rocks. I know strange.

[speber]

[BIGMAN131307]

"what music makes you feel good/bad?"

....as opposed to just favorite artists and genres.

Hmm, now that sounds like a fun project. Here is what I came up with after a couple hours.


Artist's, Bands, Groups & Songs that make me feel good:

First are some Artist's & Bands that I enjoy listening to overall. I like the majority of the music they play.

Nickelback (various songs)
Mötley Crüe (various songs)
The Righteous Brothers (various songs)



Dido (various songs)
Van Halen (various songs)
U2 (various songs)
Inner Circle (various songs)
Meat Loaf (various songs)
Pat Benatar (various songs)
John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band (various songs)
Guns N' Roses (various songs: especially Sweet Child Of Mine & Don't Cry)
STAIND (various songs)
Genesis (various songs)
Phil Collins (various songs)
Janet Jackson (various songs)
Jennifer Lopez (various songs)
Jennifer Love Hewitt (various songs)
Jan & Dean (various songs)
The Beatles (various songs)
The Beach Boys (various songs)
The Monkees (various songs)
KISS (various songs)
LeAnn Rhimes (various songs)
Lita Ford (various songs)



Ozzy Osbourne (various songs)
Lorrie Morgan (various songs)
Martina McBride (various songs)
Alabama (various songs)
Evanescence (various songs)
Shania Twain (various songs)
Faith Hill (various songs)
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons (various songs)



Waylon Jennings (various songs)
Heart (various songs)


Hinder (various songs)



Dion & The Belmonts (various songs)
Hoobastank (various songs)
Hootie & the Blowfish (various songs)
Huey Lewis & the News (various songs)
Incubus (various songs)
H.I.M. (various songs)



Some of my favorite albums:

Jesper Kyd (All HITMAN Games & Movie sountracks)


That Thing You Do! (movie soundtrack)



Trick or Treat (movie soundtrack)


Paul Stanley (album: Live To Win)
Alter Bridge (albums: One Day Remains & Blackbird)


3 Doors Down (albums: Away from the Sun, Seventeen Days, The Better Life)
CREED (albums: My Own Prison, Human Clay, Weathered)
Have Love Will Travel Review (album: Have Love)



Songs I enjoy:

Bill Haley & The Comets - See You Lator Aligator, Shake Rattle & Roll
Billy Idol - White Wedding, Rebel Yell, Cradle Of Love, Shock to the System, Don't You Forget about me


Billy Joel - My Life, Tell Her About It, Uptown Girl, The Longest Time, We didn't start the fire, I go to extremes, The river of dreams


Black Sabbath - Ironman & Paranoid
Blue Swede - Hooked On A Feeling
Bobby Day - Rockin Robin
Bobby Fuller Four - I Faught the Law
Blake Lewis - This is my now (live)
White Lion - Wait
Winger - Easy Come(Easy Go), Seventeen, Miles Away
ZZ Top - Legs
The Wanderers - Stranger Girl
Paul Simon - Me and Julio down by the schoolyard, You can call me Al
Def Leppard - Rocket, Animal, Love Bites, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Armageddon It
Diamond Rio - One More Day
DIO - Holy Driver, Rainbow in the Dark, The Last in Line
Dokken - Breaking the Chains, Heaven Sent, In My Dreams, Dream Warriors


Don Henley - Boys of Summer
Extreme - More Than Words
FAT JOE - Crush Tonight, Lean Back
Finger Eleven - One Thing
Frank Stallone - Peace in Our Life
Fuel - Falls on Me, Hemorrage (In My Hands), Bad Day



Eddie Money - Baby Hold On To Me, Take Me Home Tonight


Edwin McCain - I'll Be
Eminem - Loose Yourself
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
Europe - The Final Countdown
Eurythmics - Would I Lie to You?
Edwin Starr - War
Elvis Presley - All Shock Up, Drums of the Islands, Teddy Bear, Almost Always True,
CC Rider, Don't Be Cruel, Frankfurt Special, GI Blues, Good Luck Charm, Hound Dog,
Ito Eats, Jailhouse Rock, Little Sister, Look Like An Angel, Polk Salad Annie,
Return to Sender, Rock-A-Hula Baby, Shoppin' Around, Slicin' Sand, Viva Las Vegas,
What's She Really Like, Wooden Heart,
4 Non Blondes - What's Up


Clay Aiken - The Way
Clint Black - Nothin But the Taillights, Like the Rain, No Time To Kill,
Cyndi Lauper - It's Good Enough, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Damn Yankees - High Enough
Dan Hill - It's A Long Road
Danger Danger - Bang Bang
Danzig - Mother
Dashboard Confessional - Vindicated
Daughtry - It's Not Over, Home
David Bowie - Space Oddity, All the Young Dudes, Heroes, Let's Dance,
Dancing in the Streets, Slow Burn, Afraid, 5:15 the Angels have gone,
A better future
David Lee Roth - Just A Gigolo, Yankee Rose, Just Like Paradise, Goin' Crazy


38 Special - So Caught Up In You, Hold On Loosely & Back Where You Belong


213 - Groupie Luv


Accept - Balls to the Wall
AC/DC - You Shock Me All Night Long
BON JOVI - Edge of a Broken Heart, Livin' on a Prayer, You give love a bad name, Raise your hands,
Without Love, I'll Die For You, Never Say Goodbye, Wild In The Streets, She Don't Know Me, Come Back,
Everyday, Lay Your Hands On Me, It's My Life, Just Older, One Wild Night, Bad Medicine, Born to be my baby,
99 in the shade, I'll be there for you, Lost Highway, Have a nice day



Boston - More Than a feeling
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the heart


Britney Spears - (You Drive Me)Crazy


Britny Fox - Girlschool
Brooke Hogan - Everything to Me, All About Us,
Bruce Springstein - Born to Run, Dancing in the Dark, Glory Days
Bryan Adams - Summer of '69, It's Only Love, Can't Stop This Thing We Started, This Time,
Cuts Like a Knife, (Everything I Do) I do for you, Please Forgive Me


Chubby Checker - The Twist, Let's Twist Again, Limbo Rock, Loddy Lo
Cinderella -Don't Know What You Got, Nobady's Fool, Somebody Save Me
Busta Rhymes - Turn It Up Instrumental
Christina Aguilera - Candyman, Come On Over, Dirty,
Cassidy - Hotel
Chicago - You're My Inspiration, Hard Habit to Break
Carrie Underwood - Some Hearts
Cher / Peter Cetera - After All
Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time
Aerosmith - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing, Love in an Elevator, Rag Doll, Dude (Looks Like a Lady),
Janie's Got a Gun, The Otherside, Angel, Livin' on the Edge, Sweet Emotion
A-ha - Take On Me


Alicia Keys - Karma, You Don't Know My Name, Samsonite Man
All - 4 - One - So Much In Love, I Swear

Other music:

Soviet Union National Anthem by the Russian Army Choir (Thx to Rocky IV)



*Note*

This is just a small sampling of the music I enjoy listening to. If I was to list everything, it would probably crash the site.

[Shelley]

Wow. Great list. I found myself listening to Lynard Skynard yesterday (Tuesday's Gone) and Tom Cochrane (Lunatic Fringe).
But I like most of what you've listed. I like live music when I can catch it, if its good.
I also like Eurythmics/Annie Lennox.

[speber]

I see a couple that match up with a couple of other member's mentions so some time today I will get them put into the 'AUDITORIUM' !!!!!!!




Love the varied tastes in music guys....finding new cool songs is fun ain't it?

[angel]

I like most music what i listen to in a blue mood Alanis Morissette - Ironic... most all her music..... when im in a really bad mood Ive foung myself listening to metallica

love angel

[angel]

I see a couple that match up with a couple of other member's mentions so some time today I will get them put into the 'AUDITORIUM' !!!!!!!




Love the varied tastes in music guys....finding new cool songs is fun ain't it?

YUP, its relaxing

Love angel

[Birdbomb]

Speber, you don't need a hobbie, do you? LOL

Quite a list there.





[scratches head and wonders how much stocks in YouTube would cost.... ]

[Bernard]

Google owns Youtube.

[speber]

Speber, you don't need a hobbie, do you? LOL

It's more of a quest, really...

[brain]

Google owns Youtube.

At the rate it's going now:
We're owning it ~ especially
in CWE ...

[renee97]

I finally purchased the book "Musicophilia" by Dr. Sacks. I have not read very far, but I am also not as (?) impressed as I hoped to be.
Lisa

[renee97]

I have not been on the forum for many days. A number of reasons.
My musical tastes range far and wide: "Classical" if you want to call it that-from the 1200's (a local vocal ensemble performs very early / pre-1600 music often), I have CD's of vocal music from the 1400's and I love it. I prefer music up to about 1775 (just picked a year out of thin air) and then again about 1880. I am not fond of Mozart (so shoot me), but I like Haydn (Bach and Haydn were craftsmen---they WORKED at composing. Mozart's music came off the end of his fingertips.
With the major exception of Brahms, much of the 19th century is so-so. Brahms (ANY thing he wrote) is my desert island composer.
Then the really substantive 20th century composers I like. There are too many to list here. And all of these guys and girls (quite a few good women composers) have composed music of all types. Music when your happy, sad, confused, angry, whatever you want.

I also like a great deal of New Age which encompasses a great deal of sounds. Jazz-yes,
older rock-yes, (I am past 50!). I like to listen to things I have never heard before.
Lisa Renee

[speber]

I finally purchased the book "Musicophilia" by Dr. Sacks. I have not read very far, but I am also not as (?) impressed as I hoped to be.
Lisa

...but it's mainly due to the fact the book does not specifically concentrate on eplilepsy. Still an interesting read....and I DO believe there's a connection----simply because I believe music(certain auditory stimulus) can have a profound effect on individuals if the circumstances are right!

[brain]

I used to sell tons of CD's ....
on eBay during our heydays,
like files attracted to a picnic!

People would fight and bid like
crazy! When I was married my
ex would get these wholesale
down the road, and all I did was
list them (under one of the many
ID's we had) and we would have
as many as 20-30 people fighting
for a CD. All I had to do was put
it for 1 cent and back off, and
wrap it up and on the lower bottom
write the CD name, our return
label and wait 7 days for the auction
to end, and to say they could have
gotten it cheaper at the store!



But we weren't complaining! It
was a lot of fun! Country, Classic,
Oldies, Original Rock, New Rock,
Heavy Metal, all kinds, whatever
my ex would grab, I just listed it
after scanning the front and
back and the image would be
so big where people could see
what they were getting and the
songs that were on it. I didn't
even need to type anything on
it. You could see it was wrapped,
sealed, unopened, etc. The only
then was, we had a "No Return
Policy - Once opened - Can't
Return it." But we had no complaints
and tons of repeat customers, the
more they buy, the cheaper the
shipping was (since I shipped via
media mail - so it wasn't unusual
for 1 person to buy 10-20-30 CD's!)



I miss those days!

[renee97]

Addressing Speber;
I should have (if I would have been physically able) returned Musicophilia as quickly as possible. just looking at the chapters and the sections indicates the majority of the material he writes about are medical case studies, medical problems with music as a part of the equation, etc. In other words, I just do not see anything positive in the book. Another way of putting this is: I don't need to be reading about someone else's life ending in suicide when I am feeling depressed!
LR